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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORRIS HERRMANN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINATION GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,045, dated June 14, 1881. Application filed April 12, 1881. (No model.)

To allwllom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORRIS HERRMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State-of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mens and Boys Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garments for mens and boys wear, of novel construction and shape, whereby several portions are made separable and convertible, so that by one connection a simple suit is formed,

and then by the addition of other parts garments of other description are formed.

My invention mainly consists of an ordinary jacket or coat of any desired length, of an independent cape, and a separate skirt-piece, each so constructed that it canbe joined onto the jacket or coat.

Referring to the drawings that accompany this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 represents a rear and front view of my complete combined overcoat and suit. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are the several parts detached.

A is the coat or jacket, constructed of the usual shape and of any desirable length. It has one or more buttons in front on a line with its rear waist-buttons.

B is a cape, supplied with hooks, I), or similar cont-rivances to fasten within loops or eyes under the collar of the jacket A.

O is a skirt-piece made with an attached belt, 0, having rear button-holes, c, and front button-holes, 0 It also has openings P, out so as to be coincident with the pocket-openings on the jacket A.

The jacket A can be used without the cape or skirt-piece, and, when worn with a pair of pants and vest or under-waist, forms acomplete suit.

When additional warmth or protection from the weather is desired, the cape B is placed under the collar on and fastened thereto by means of the hooks b, or similar contrivances. \Vhen further warmth or protection is desired, the skirt-piece is fastened round the waist, the connections being made by buttoning on the band 0.

The openings P coincide with the pocketopenings on the jacket. When these several parts are connected together they form acomplete undercoat and overcoat with waist-belt, the whole having the appearance of an ordinary ulster with cape.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim is A combined separable coat and overcoat consisting of a jacket, A, and skirt-piece O,

having belt-holes 0 0 adapted to fasten round the waist of the jacket A, substantially as described.

MORRIS HERRMANN. Witnesses:

A. S. HAMERSLY, Jr., J. P. BERG. 

